Do you care if your car is made in America?

A reader pointed out that though electric car evangelist Dan Davids said he promotes fuel technology that is “cleaner, cheaper, domestic” in our high-tech vehicle story, the car Davids drives himself was made in Japan. It’s a Toyota Prius.

We seem to have a conflicted relationship with foreign products in this country. On the one hand, many of us don’t care whether our toys, gadgets and clothing were made in the United States, South America or Taiwan. But when it comes to bigger things — airplanes, for example — domesticity is more than a detail. It’s a demand.

Just ask Northrop Grumman Corp., which in a partnership with EADS, a parent of France-based Airbus, beat Boeing to a $40 billion Air Force tanker contract in February. Airbus isn’t as foreign as you’d think. Nor are Boeing planes all domestic. Yet the winning team became the target of American rage that the military was fraternizing with the French.

They say the car you drive says a lot about who you are. How important is it to you that your car be made in America?